His sharp, percussive rhythms and peculiar duck walk were famous parts of the Feelgood experience.

He left Dr. Feelgood in 1977 and formed his own band. Then he joined the band of Ian Dury, The Blockheads in 1980. He left that too and took Dury’s bassist Norman Watt-Roy with him.

In 2013 Wilko announced that he had a terminal cancer and that he was going on a farewell jaunt. At about the same time he was seen in the HBO series “Game of Thrones” playing the mute executioner Ser Ilyn Payne.

In 2014, after an 11-hour operation, the born survivor announced he was “cancer-free.”

He will celebrate his 70th birthday on July 12th.

Wilko will also perform his biggest concert of his life this year — at London’s Royal Albert Hall — on Tuesday, 26 September.